Monthly Archives: April 2016

Design my Privacy

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, April 18, 2016

Your privacy is under pressure. Sometimes it appears as if the computer knows exactly what our needs are, or what we are looking for. We click, we like and app to our hearts content. The Internet knows exactly who we are and gives us all kinds of free information. But behind the smart products and [...]

Digital Human-to-Human Dialogues

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, April 12, 2016

By Dylan Degeling Conversations on publication platforms are slowly turning into a dying breed. With several popular publication platforms and blogs permanently closing up their comment-sections, the means by which people engage with a publication on the web is changing (Elis, 2015; Gasthuis, 2013; Sweney, 2016). Discussions through comments, currently the most used conversation method [...]

Navigating Theory on Demand: try out our new web platform for reading

By Miriam Rasch, April 8, 2016

Navigating Theory on Demand is a new way of reading, interacting and working with an e-publication. In collaboration with the PublishingLab a new reading platform has been developed for the Theory on Demand series to make the publications easily readable and browsable online. Léna Robin, Josip Batinic and Lucia Dossin have researched, designed and developed [...]

How To Be Modern: a Situationist social democrat’s adventures in radio, gaming and the internet

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, April 4, 2016

A conversation between Richard Barbrook and Petar Jandrić Richard Barbrook is a media theorist, social scientist, and one of the most important analysts of the political and the ideological roles of information and communications technologies. He studied at universities of Cambridge, Essex and Kent. In early-1980s, he helped to set up the multi-lingual Spectrum Radio [...]